Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Pachelbel’s Canon

Episode notes

Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why Pachelbel’s Canon is secretly incredibly fascinating.

Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.

LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:

• Katie Goldin on Twitter
• @ProBirdRights
• ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
• When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
• “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
• Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
• Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)

RESEARCH SOURCES:

• Here’s a YouTube upload of musicians playing Pachelbel’s Canon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tEdSG18xWQ That recording is the one slowed down and conducted and recorded by Jean François Paillard in 1968, setting off a new craze for Pachelbel’s piece.
• A History of Western Music by Donald Jay Grout and Claude V. Palisca
• Classical Composers: A guide to the lives and works of the great composers from the Medieval, Baroque and Classical Eras by Wendy Thompson
• “21 Songs that use Pachelbel’s Canon chord progression” by David Bennett (YouTube) — and please support David Bennett on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidbennettpiano
• Encyclopedia Britannica entry for the musical concept of “basso continuo”
• Canon in D — 300 years on, Pachelbel’s melody is still circulating (The Financial Times)
• How ‘Canon in D Major’ Became the Wedding Song (The New York Times)
• YouTube upload of musicians playing Pachelbel’s Gigue in D Major
• A far cry from normal: Amazonian butterflies drink turtle tears (NBC News)
• When Queen & David Bowie sued Vanilla Ice: The top 5 landmark cases in music copyright disputes (EuroNews.com)
• Google Newspapers upload of article in The Boca Raton News, 1979: “Move over Mick Jagger; here’s Johann Pachelbel”
• YouTube upload of the movie trailer for ‘Ordinary People’ (1980)
• YouTube upload of 1978 U.K. advertisement for “Pure New Wool”
• How we made: All Together Now by the Farm (The Guardian)
• IMAX—Not the First, but Close! (Smithsonian Air And Space Museum)
• Flight of the Filmgoer: The 28-Minute National Monument ‘To Fly’ (The Washington Post)
• catalog entry from The Morgan Library and Museum, and an image upload, for a 1981 New Yorker cartoon mocking ubiquity and torment of repetitive Pachelbel’s Canon
• ‘Oh No!’ How A 60s Girl Group Anthem Took Over TikTok (UDiscoverMusic.com)
• “You’ll Call Now”: The Making—and Meaning—of the Sears AC Commercial That Will Never Die (The Ringer)